A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was put to death by firing squad ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...

Brad Sigmon had three options: die by firing squad, die by electrocution or die by a new lethal injection drug. He chose the firing squad. Mikal Mahdi made the same choice. South Carolina executed ...

When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 ...

A South Carolina man executed last month by firing squad may have suffered for an extended period of time before dying because shooters largely missed his heart, an autopsy commissioned by the state ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge ...

The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder chose to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such ...